{"id":155,"date":"2014-10-30T18:36:23","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T18:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/?p=155"},"modified":"2017-02-22T13:22:55","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T13:22:55","slug":"155","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/2014\/10\/30\/155\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Yi&#8217;s Modern Korea Students Visit the Korean Embassy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">On October 29, 2014, students in Modern Korean history class took a field trip to the Korean Cultural Center\u00a0on Embassy Row in Washington, D.C.\u00a0 Students had an opportunity to experience Korean traditional culture by trying on <i>hanbok <\/i><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">(traditional Korean clothes), sitting in <\/span><i><span style=\"color: #000000\">sarangbang<\/span><\/i><span style=\"color: #000000\"> (traditional guest room\/living room) and sipping green tea, and playing percussion instruments for <\/span><i><span style=\"color: #000000\">samulnori <\/span><\/i><span style=\"color: #000000\">(folk music). \u00a0The staff at the center\u00a0offered a\u00a0very interactive presentation highlighting the impact of traditional culture in modern Korean society.\u00a0 We also learned how pop singer PSY\u2019s \u201cGangnam style\u201d was just a part of the tides of <\/span><i><span style=\"color: #000000\">hallyu <\/span><\/i><span style=\"color: #000000\">(Korean waves), the increasing popularity of South Korean popular culture throughout Asia and the world. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/207\/2014\/10\/Yi-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-159\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/207\/2014\/10\/Yi-3.jpg\" alt=\"Yi 3\" width=\"243\" height=\"255\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/207\/2014\/10\/Yi-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-157\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/207\/2014\/10\/Yi-2.jpg\" alt=\"Yi 2\" width=\"186\" height=\"249\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\">Dr. Yi&#8217;s HIST 497 Modern Korea students try on some traditional Korean costume in D.C.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On October 29, 2014, students in Modern Korean history class took a field trip to the Korean Cultural Center\u00a0on Embassy Row in Washington, D.C.\u00a0 Students had an opportunity to experience Korean traditional culture by trying on hanbok (traditional Korean clothes), sitting in sarangbang (traditional guest room\/living room) and sipping green tea, and playing percussion instruments &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/2014\/10\/30\/155\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dr. Yi&#8217;s Modern Korea Students Visit the Korean Embassy<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":289,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/289"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions\/161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}